There's no reason that inheriting wealth means you must also inherit crimes. Just because they are related concepts doesn't make them have to both be reasonable or unreasonable together.
Inheriting wealth is reasonable because gives people a(nother) reason to contribute to the world - to secure a place for their children in a potentially uncertain future. Parents who have spent a large portion of their life caring and provisioning for there children want to see that they have a level of security when gone.
Inheriting crime is unreasonable for, hopefully, obvious reasons.
Luckily, we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Right but if you kill someone and stay living your heirs are not criminals either.
If you create the next billion dollar game and survive your heirs (or those you specify in your will) will surely be enriched, perhaps it should be 70 years alive or dead that copyright persists for.
Inheriting wealth is reasonable because gives people a(nother) reason to contribute to the world - to secure a place for their children in a potentially uncertain future. Parents who have spent a large portion of their life caring and provisioning for there children want to see that they have a level of security when gone.
Inheriting crime is unreasonable for, hopefully, obvious reasons.
Luckily, we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.